So basically, everyone who does suffer deserves to because two people who lived thousands of years ago ate an apple?
Everyone else has sinned too.
How do you know? What crime has everyone committed?
Um, it's quite obvious. Would you seriously ask me to believe that you (or anyone) has lived a completely perfect life?
No but there's injustice, would it fair to, for example, give someone cancer when the worst thing they've done is steal sweets from their sibling when they were 8?
But god can fix the machine, he's god, he can do whatever he likes. Just cause one person breaks the machine doesn't mean that god shouldn't fix it and let people be hurt by a machine that won't pass health and safety regulations.
BTW I think I struggle to understand your thought experiment please re-word it if it's apparent i've mis-understood it.
It’s Christian doctrine that Jesus was a sacrifice. You’re saying you don’t believe Jesus was a sacrifice? Also the notion that punishing one person absolves a different person for their wrongdoings is preposterous.
If I show you evidence that Sacramento is the capital of California, and that evidence convinces you, did I violate your free will? No? Great!
Looks like you’re going to have to try another ad hoc explanation. Why doesn’t God just convince us he exists?
Right? What is the machine a metaphor for? It can't be the planet because everyone uses the planet.
He respected our choice to disobey him by letting children die in agony. Makes sense.
I disagree. I haven’t found any convincing evidence. Why doesn’t he convince me?
I think it's about "choosing" to accept the evidence.
I still don't understand why god can't fix all creation/'the machine' just because two people ate fruit from a tree.
Because God doesn’t want the love of robots. God wants us to choose to love Him not be forced by Him to love Him.
I didn’t ask why God doesn’t force us to love him. I asked why he doesn’t convince us he exists. Don’t worry, if you dodge the question the second time there’s a good chance I won’t notice 👍